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GERMAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE

GERMAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE GERMANIC LANGUAGES I. GERMAN STUDIES LANGUAGE By KENNETH J. NoRTHCOTT, Associate Professor of Older German Literature in the University of Chicago, formerly Lecturer in the University of Sheffield I. GENERAL WORKS Generally speaking, there seems to have been slightly less activity in this field during the year under review. This article cannot begin before we have saluted the completion of the Deutsches Wiirterbuch approximately 125 years after its inception. However, our joy is mingled with the realization that too often linguistic works of this sort take far too long for their completion and so lose much of their value-a point which has been stressed on more than one occasion by the author of the present article with regard to the Ahd. Worterbuch of which fasc. 12 has now appeared. We are glad to learn that new methods, including the use of electronic com­ puters, for the accumulation of the vast masses of material needed for vocabulary study are now beginning to be employed; in this connexion we should like to mention the pioneering work being done for the German scholar by Dr R. A. Wisbey of Cambridge University. Symptomatic of the great interest in vocabulary studies, which form by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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GERMANIC LANGUAGES I. GERMAN STUDIES LANGUAGE By KENNETH J. NoRTHCOTT, Associate Professor of Older German Literature in the University of Chicago, formerly Lecturer in the University of Sheffield I. GENERAL WORKS Generally speaking, there seems to have been slightly less activity in this field during the year under review. This article cannot begin before we have saluted the completion of the Deutsches Wiirterbuch approximately 125 years after its inception. However, our joy is mingled with the realization that too often linguistic works of this sort take far too long for their completion and so lose much of their value-a point which has been stressed on more than one occasion by the author of the present article with regard to the Ahd. Worterbuch of which fasc. 12 has now appeared. We are glad to learn that new methods, including the use of electronic com­ puters, for the accumulation of the vast masses of material needed for vocabulary study are now beginning to be employed; in this connexion we should like to mention the pioneering work being done for the German scholar by Dr R. A. Wisbey of Cambridge University. Symptomatic of the great interest in vocabulary studies, which form by

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The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies – Brill

Published: Mar 13, 1962

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